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2-3.Who is the Earthly mother of Jesus according to the UB?

According to The Urantia Book (the 5th Epochal Revelation / Urantia Papers), the earthly (human / earth) mother of Jesus is Mary of Nazareth.

The text repeatedly and explicitly identifies her as "Mary, the earth mother of Jesus" (or "the earth mother of the bestowal child").Key Direct Quotes from Paper 122 ("Birth and Infancy of Jesus")These are reproduced verbatim on the spiritualfamily.net forum thread dedicated to Paper 122 , which posts the full standardized text with no added commentary or alternative interpretations:

• 122:1.2 — "Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia. Although Mary was an average woman of her day and generation, possessing a fairly normal temperament, she reckoned among her ancestors such well-known women as Annon, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, Ansie, Cloa, Eve, Enta, and Ratta. … Racially considered, it is hardly proper to regard Mary as a Jewess. In culture and belief she was a Jew, but in hereditary endowment she was more a composite of Syrian, Hittite, Phoenician, Greek, and Egyptian stocks, her racial inheritance being more general than that of Joseph."
• 122:0.3 — "From the three couples nominated, Gabriel made the personal choice of Joseph and Mary, subsequently making his personal appearance to Mary, at which time he imparted to her the glad tidings that she had been selected to become the earth mother of the bestowal child."
• 122:1.3 — "Of all couples living in Palestine at about the time of Michael’s projected bestowal, Joseph and Mary possessed the most ideal combination of widespread racial connections and superior average of personality endowments. … wherefore Gabriel selected just such persons as Joseph and Mary to become the bestowal parents."

Additional details from the same paper (also on spiritualfamily.net):

• Gabriel appeared to Mary in Nazareth (mid-November, 8 B.C.) to announce the conception.
• Mary gave birth to Jesus on August 21, 7 B.C., in Bethlehem.
• She is described as cheerful, practical, a skilled homemaker and weaver, with a temperament that influenced Jesus’ early life more than Joseph’s did.
• She alternated between belief and doubt about Jesus’ divine mission but was steadied by the memory of Gabriel’s visit.

The spiritualfamily.net site (including its forum and Urantia-related sections) contains no deviations, alternative names, or different teachings—it simply hosts, quotes, and discusses the standard Urantia Papers text. Searches across the site for “earthly mother,” “human mother,” “Mary mother of Jesus,” or Paper 122 all point back to these exact passages and consistently affirm Mary as the one selected human mother alongside Joseph.

This parallels the biblical account of Mary but expands it with detailed ancestry, personality profile, selection process by Gabriel, and the context of Jesus (Michael of Nebadon) appearing as an “average” man among common people. For the complete narrative, see Paper 122 in full on spiritualfamily.net or the official Urantia sources.